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RED CROSS SALE AT TRUMBULL
In spite of the bad weather the Red Cross auction sale at Trumbull in May was well attended and the affair was very successful. People were most generous in their donations and articles of all kinds, useful and ornamental, besides much live stock, found its way to the sale. Being a patriotic affair, the sale opened with the singing of "America," and a stirring speech by auctioneer, S. Munn. Bidding was lively, prices were good and much enthusiasm prevailed. At intervals the Trum- bull band under the leadership of Bert Talbert gave seleetions. The boy scouts in their military uniforms made themselves very useful. The Red Cross ladies served lunch from noon until 5 o'clock, and the Junior Red Cross sold tags. As a result of all these efforts nearly $1.100 was realized. Trumbull has a right to be proud of this achievement.
INLAND QUILT BRINGS $365
The largest, most patriotic and most enthusiastic erowd that ever gathered in the little village of Inland met there last Wednesday afternoon, May 8, when a Red Cross auction was held in the vaeant implement shop of John J. Donahue. All morning farmers and merchants kept coming with three hundred pound hogs, pigs. calves, sheep, chickens, eggs, butter, harness, merchandise of all kinds, family dogs, sacks of wheat, oats, barley, corn, potatoes and seed corn ; the ladies bringing all kinds of fancy work, fancy quilts, pies, eakes, canned fruit, goslings, little ehiekens, and even eanary birds. The merehants of Inland besides making their donations, furnished the pop, buns, meat, ete., which was served by the members of the Girls Club of Inland.
The sale began at 2 o'clock, Colonel Doty of Hastings and Colonel Munn of
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Trumbull taking turns in crying it. The bidding was lively and spirited : many items of ten, fifteen and even twenty dollars being promptly donated back by the buyer to be sold again for the benefit of the Red Cross. Donations of personal checks were put up and sold, checks of two dollars bringing three or four dollars when auctioned off. One man, who that afternoon received a check for five dollars which had been due him, made a gift of it to the Red Cross. This was promptly sold for seven dollars and a half. Five and ten dollar bills were put up and brought from two to three dollars more than face value. A ten dollar gold piece was sold for twenty-one dollars.
The sale was interspersed by stirring patriotic speeches by both auctioneers, who not only gave their services for the day, but also contributed freely.
Among the items sold were a pair of week old goslings which brought $6.50; a hen and ten chicks brought $25; a can of fruit, $10; two pounds of butter, $11; and a Red Cross quilt, donated by St. Cecelia's Sewing Circle, brought $86. The sale was topped by the remarkable price of $365 for a quilt donated by Mrs. G. W. Ablott.
The sale was not completed by 6 o'clock so a recess was taken, the people hurrying home to milk, feed chickens, etc., and then rushed back in greater numbers to again vie pleasantly in outbidding each other.
One of the laughter arousing events of the evening was the sale of an egg for a dollar, after which the auctioneer offered $? to the Red Cross fund, for any one who would suck the egg. The offer was immediately taken by Mr. Gallaher, one of the bearded patriarchs of the township, who sweeping his long moustache out of the way, easily slipped the egg out of sight.
The results of the sale were $2,404 while the Girls Club made $172 on the refreshments, making a total of $2,576. In totaling up individual accounts, it was found that several had spent close to $150 each on the sale.
This total, which breaks the record in this community for Red Cross sales, is a strong evidence of the fervent generosity of the Inland people. It shows that these good people are in heart, mind and purse, back of the brave boys who have gone to do their fighting for them.
OFF FOR TRAINING CAMP
The largest crowd that has been in this town for some time came in on the occasion of the entraining of a bunch of lads for the training camp last Tuesday morning, May 28, and sent the boys away with cheers and good wishes. This is the first lot to go to Camp Dodge from this county and the boys will soon begin to write back their impressions of the Iowa cantonment. Among the lads who went is one who will have two brothers fighting on the other side from him, but he knows that they are forced to, and he goes gladly to help strike from them the yoke of autocracy. The following boys made up the party :
Adelbert I. Davison, Harvard Ralph Corey, Sutton Peter O. Taylor, Clay Center J. Arthur Boberg, Lincoln Charles Hamoresky, Brule Eddie Herzog, Trumbull ('harles Herrick, Trumbull
Claude D. Spaulding, Trumbull Martin Dedrickson, Saronville Linn Potts, Harvard
James A. Chance, Edgar Edwin T. Hoffman, Inland Rex Shubert, Fairfield
Arthur C. Carey, Sutton
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William G. Schmer, Harvard
Henry C. Ronnefeldt, Hastings
Henry C. Hinrieks, Inland
Leslie A. Jones, Clay Center
John L. Galloway, Omaha
Clyde B. Wilson, Fairfield
Ralph J. Anderton, Fairfield
Alfred C. Schwarz, Sutton
Olen B. Whitlock, Ong
Peter Christensen, Edgar Clyde Casterline, Lincoln
Sidney L. Anthes, Clay Center
Ralph L. Collins, Minden
John H. Cobal, Spring Ranch
Earl L. Hanson, Trumbull
Curtis Pierce, Harvard
William G. Schmer, Harvard
HARVEST HANDS AVAILABLE
The Sun remarked on June 20, 1918:
We have been made the subject of considerable good-natured joshing by a num- ber of our farmer friends for the past three weeks because of our activity in pro- moting the movement of town help for harvest needs. In view of this we take a good deal of pleasure in being able this week to put the proposition up to our farmers in a manner that must prove to them conclusively that they are going to be able to take care of their 1918 harvest and that the reason they are going to be able to take care of it easily and well is because their brethren of the town jumped into the breech and saved the day.
We do not take the credit for having accomplished this result nor do we wish it, for we are well pleased that the thing has been accomplished; however, it is meet that proper credit should be given, and so we say to you that the parties who have completed the details of this matter are the Clay County Council of Defense, assisted by County Agent Claybaugh. Chairman H. H. Johnson suggests that the clubs that are being organized in every town in the county be called "The Business Men's Harvest Help Clubs." Chairman Johnson has the matter sized up in this way: "Very few of our business men could stand a day in the field, but there are none of them but what could and would be glad to put in three or four hours in the late afternoon and evening.
Ordinarily a farmer with one seven or eight foot binder will cut from twelve to fifteen acres of grain per day. One man should be able to shock an aere an hour, so that one crew of five men should be able to go into a field at 6 o'clock and have the day's cutting shocked by 9 o'clock.
Taking these figures as a base, the gentlemen in charge of this branch of our war work have organized here in Clay Center fourteen Harvest Help Clubs, each consisting of four men and a captain. These clubs are available for work at any time and to get one or more of them it is only necessary for you to telephone the manager of the Clay Center Labor Bureau Co., Agent Claybaugh. In other parts of the county the same kind of clubs are being organized and you will be asked to confer with the clubs in your territory when seeking harvest help. These clubs are already organized at Ong, Fairfield, Edgar, and Clay Center as this is written (Wednesday) and today Mr. Claybaugh is in the north portion of the county completing the work. Here are the local clubs:
SQUAD No. 1-L. A. Brown, captain; F. A. Taylor, R. B. Tompkins, George Brewer, E. J. Diekson.
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SQUAD No. 2 .- N. W. Buchtel, captain ; L. J. Gilkeson, Frank Hager, W. Rippe- teau, George F. Meyer.
SQUAD No. 3-O. M. Campbell, captain ; Charles Whitlam, John Rutledge, Cal. Rollins, Earl Fryar.
SQUAD No. 4 -H. B. Campbell, captain; R. A. Byrkit, W. A. Burt, William Kath, Ami Foster.
SQUAD No. 5-Irwin Crawford, captain; W. L. Boldensten, Reverend Bowers, N. O. Deines, J. E. Ray.
SQUAD No. 6-H. H. Harvey, captain ; A. S. Kyne, James L. Campbell, Ernest King, Clem Ellis.
SQUAD No. 7-William Hansen, captain ; Bert Searles, Reverend Tweedy ; G. L. Boonstraw, A. W. Johnson.
SQUAD No. 8-F. M. Larkin, captain ; Frank Miller, K. D. Wary, C. L. Rippe- teau, Fred Turner.
SQUAD No. 9-O. McKelvie, captain; P. Adams, E. Kirkhaffer, W. C. Jessup, Charles Hazelton.
SQUAD No. 10-J. L. Moomaw, captain ; J. H. Nieman, James Harvison, Dan Deines, J. L. Hurt.
SQUAD No. 11-Charles Nagel, captain ; George R. Riley; R. Mooloneaux, Ray Fairley, Ernest Frisch.
SQUAD No. 12-H. C. Palmer, captain; C. L. Stewart, C. W. Lewien, Vernon Larkin, C. J. Swanson.
SQUAD No. 13-J. H. Perrigrine, captain ; John Balusek, John Schmitz, John Neuman, Frank Snoddy.
SQUAD No. 14-Earl Randall, captain; Reverend West, Vern Chandler, C. E. Voris, John Stiles.
UNASSIGNED RESERVE SUBJECT TO CALL-Milo Crawford, Henry Fuhrken, H. Falkenburg, R. H. Moore, V. F. Chipman, Fred Howard, John Nagel, D. H. Han- son, R. E. Ferris, Doctor Gartell, J. H. Eller, J. L. Perry, L. B. Sluyter, A. M. Williams, William R. Fry, G. M. Bavinger, P. E. Felton, J. L. Wilson, Joseph Rice, S. V. Searles, Doctor Archard, Reverend Becker.
This work will be paid for at the going harvest rates. A fair adjustment will be reached between the farmers and the business men.
Friday, June 28th, is a date that will long be remembered in this county for at that time fifty-seven of our young men will go out to fight for the preservation of the rights of all men. Twenty-eight of these boys will go to Camp Funston for their initial training in the science of war and the balance will go to Fort Riley. Plans are now on foot to distinguish this event by having in this city on the morn- ing of the 28th a patriotic concert by an all-county band, some good speaking and some other patriotic stunts to impress upon the boys that they take with them into their adventure the love and respect of all Clay County. Make your plans to be here on this occasion and come early enough to be a part of the entire program. You note that we say "be a part." and that is what is desired of you. These are our boys and this is our war and everyone present at this leavetaking will be a part of the spirit of the program just as truly as though they made a hip, hip. hurrah speech, a fervent prayer or tooted a horn. Come and help send these boys away with a smile. The ones to go will be selected from this list :
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Name Address
Name Address
Arthur Hornbacher, Sutton
Wesley O. Sandberg, Ong
Rudolph Gemmar, Ong
Jake Kissler, Sutton
Albert Streever, Edgar
Fred Engle, Inland
Leslie Northrop, Fulton
Floys S. Buchtel, Clay Center
Carl S. Dedrickson, Saronville
George Stengel, Sutton Perey V. Gay, Fairfield
Charles E. Spencer, Harvard
Andrew Axel Benson, Saronville
Rent C. Hinrichs, Glenville Orson G. Fuller, Harvard
Perry Walter Sage, Harvard
Clarence L. Kearney, Glenville
Herman Krug, Harvard
Arthur G. Gunther, La Salle, Ill.
Henry A. Schemer. Eldorado
Lloyd Maxwell Cassell, Edgar
Lee J. Behrends, Trumbull
Frank Ryan, Sutton Clayton Henninger, Glenville
Harold A. Stickell, Ong
Walter E. Nelson, Sutton
Herman A. Radtke, Deweese
Leonard W. Mock, Fairfield
Tom William Dieringer, Harvard
Joseph F. Cory, Rock Springs, Iowa
Ernest M. Erickson, Harvard
Albert J. Dejung, Glenville
Jacob Roemieh, Sutton
George Walthers, Glenville
Jesse A. Peck, Edgar
Tyndall F. Story, Edgar
Bernard O. Valentine, Rupert, Idaho
Robert Robinson, Ong
Mervin Barackmann, Valentine
Thornton Thornburg, Edgar
Paul Taylor, Edgar
Joseph Bayer, Spring Ranch
Fred Heinz, Sutton
Rudolph H. Eigneberg, Glenville
Ernest Salmen, Sutton
Fred H. Oker, Glenville
Leo Patrick Hughes, Sutton
William M. Byrkit, Fairfield
Herbert A. Fitzke, Fairfield
Phillip F. Urbauer, Clay Center
Clarence Dahlgren, Sutton
George E. Ioby, Sutton
Eddie Alberts, Glenville
William Fleming, Sutton
Charles E. Read, Inland
('arl A. Walton, Edgar
Fred Charles Frank, Clay Center
LEARNING ARTS OF WAR
The following young men of this county went to Lincoln last Saturday morning, June 24th, to enter the United States training camp that has been established in that city to prepare mechanics for different branches of the service :
Harry Urbach, Harvard. James A. Chance, Edgar. Arthur R. Kessles, Sutton.
Henry Charles Oleson, Saronville.
John F. Nicely, Edgar.
Henry H. White, Fairfield.
Benjamin H. Hein, Deweese.
Ruby Groves, Clay Center.
These young men will be given technical training in various kinds of mechanical lines and after a three months' period of schooling will be inducted into the actual military service wherever needed.
Edmund F. Ochsner, Sutton
Albert N. Skinner, Aberdeen, S. D.
George Ross, Harvard
Walter O. Theesen, Glenville
John B. Peterson, Sutton
Rewe Porter Mundorff, Clay Center
Emmett Leroy Bush, Bentley, Iowa
Henry Pope, Sutton
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REGISTER FOR NURSES
In response to the recent appeal made by the government, young ladies regis- tered in August, 1918, as being ready to enter upon the course of preliminary train- ing:
Francis Eller, Florence Schwab, Florence Secord, Ilma Brewer and Netta Lyons.
If that bunch of girls get into the hospitals at the front Uncle Sam will have to make more liberal draft rules for we will need lots and lots of men to take the places of the boys who will foree themselves into the hospital when they learn who's there.
JOIN THE COLORS
The following men entrained for Fort Omaha, Nebraska, Monday, September 9, 1918:
Hugo Ochsner, Sutton.
Ralph B. Hoevet, Fairfield.
The following entrained for Manhattan, Kansas, September 19, 1918:
Arthur F. Denney, Fairfield.
Arthur L. Teter, Clay Center.
Albert L. Hoydar, Fairfield. John Donnelly, Clay Center.
John Vincent Croker, Clay Center.
Francis Hattan, Edgar.
Henry Otto Gemar, Sutton.
Montie Shields, Sedan.
Carl E. Nicolai, Sutton.
Ralph Campbell, Clay C'enter.
HOME BOYS NOW FIGHTING
France, August 10, 1918.
Mr. F. B. Howard,
Dear Sir:
All the boys are O. K. They are out now in the lines somewhere getting Duteh. I see them occasionally when I take the feed out to them. Have some great times getting there. Shells hitting all around and over but a fellow can dodge them.
August 6th is the day you ean mark as the one we moved in for our share of revenge. It is great to be in it this far. The nights are wild but experience is a good teacher and a fellow soon gets used to it.
I get the mail here for the boys and take it out and bring others back.
You'll hear from us in your papers soon. I wish I could tell you more, but thought a line would help. The boys are busy and no mail has gone out for a week and probably will be another week. There will be spells when the boys ean write but some times long between.
You can place this so the parents will know that the boys are O. K. and no news is good news. Earl Buchtel, Wm. Borland, Giz Fryar and all the boys from our corner of the state are there. This includes Jones also, who was with Fryar. The States are sure doing wonderful here. It is all United States here and everywhere. Hello to all. From the Boys.
Yours respectfully, Sergt. J. C. Brehm.
C'o. G, Three Ilundred and Fifty-fifth Infantry in Active Service.
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HONORS FOR SOLDIER LADDIES-5,000 CLAY COUNTY FOLKS GATIIER TO BID TIIE BOYS ADIEU
Tuesday, September 4, 1917, Patriotic Day in Clay County, the day set aside by the entire county to pay honor to our boys who have been summoned to the colors, was recognized by even old Dame Nature herself as being a day worthy of mark and she did her bit by ushering in the morning's first light with a thunderous salute from the heavy batteries of heaven. Peal after peal shook the vault above us for half an hour and then, to show her greatest favor, we were accorded a gentle shower to lay the dust and the sun burst forth on as perfect a day as could have been desired for the occasion.
COMPANY G ARRIVES
The boys of Company G in camp in Hastings arrived in forty-two autos sent from this city for them at about 10 o'clock and immediately made themselves wel- come by their actions and appearance. In this company Clay Center has a number of men and Clay County a large representation and it was a pleasure to note that, individually and collectively, they were just the kind of a company that any county might be proud to send as their representatives into any land on the face of the earth. They were gentlemen first and soldiers all of the time. With America's fate in the hands of such as these, there can be but one result, for against such, autocratic wrongs cannot prevail.
THE PROGRAM
Dinner finally out of the way the crowd found its way to the most advan- tageous positions and listened to a splendid program of music and patriotic talks. The chorus of thirty voiees that represented Sutton on the program acquitted them- selves with mueh eredit and the singing of America by a thousand, aye probably three thousand voiees was one of the most impressive features of the day. Chair- man Logan kept everyone on the program working and there were no drags to tire the audience.
The following boys who are the first summoned for actual military duty from the county's draft, were introduced to the audience and occupied honor places on the platform during the program.
FIRST FIVE PER CENT ORDERED TO ENTRAIN FOR FORT RILEY, SEPTEMBER 6TII
James Coxbill, Deweese. Byron B. Vaughan, Edgar. Ivan V. Bentz, Fairfield.
B. J. Townsend, Clay Center. Carl HI. Nolde, Sutton. John S. Deering, Sutton.
SUBSTITUTE
Ralph McCune, Glenville.
MONDAY A BIG DAY
When the official report did come early Monday morning that hostilities were to cease, the biggest celebration Sutton has ever known began. All the bells and
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whistles in town were kept going at their fullest capacity, and bonfires and marchers and singers and joyriders were disporting themselves in an abandonment never equalled in staid old Sutton. By 9 o'clock a large crowd was in town and it was decided to have a real parade. And it was the real thing. The band made up for the occasion led. The school children, home guards, boy scouts, city officials, and most everybody who could walk or ride followed. And it was the gayest and noisest parade you ever saw.
After this numerous burnt offerings to warm the patriotic ardor of some of the more doubting Thomases were given, with and without the consent of the owners. But they, no doubt, were good for the spirit. The business houses were closed all day, and everyone who could navigate was out to enjoy the fun.
But the evening performance beat them all. By 7 o'clock Saunders Avenue was packed as far as you could see. How many thousands were here we do not know, but it was one of the monster crowds of Sutton's history. The effigy of the kaiser was hanged on a tower about thirty feet high and amid intense enthu- siasm the match was applied and soon it was a blazing torch. The band played a number of selections and a large chorus sang patriotic selections. This was followed by addresses by our pastors, L. A. Dunphy, D. G. Schurr, and C. E. Norlin, and a prayer of thanksgiving by Rev. Birk. These addresses reflected the sentiments of the multitude and were received with loud applause. All the speakers put in a good word for the United War Service drive on this week, as a means of showing our appreciation for the wonderful work of the boys in khaki. It will be a long time before they can all come home, and they deserve the best that we can offer.
The big fire that had been provided by the committee, apparently did not meet with the approval of Andrew Peter, as he furnished a real spectacle when the old beer vault which he had purchased, began to flame in good style. This was the climax of the big day's celebration, and Mr. Peter can feel proud of having fur- nished the biggest spectacle in honor of our boys in far-away France.
The day was an ideal one-warm, bright and sunshiny, and without wind. Just the kind of a day one would wish for the happiest day we have all known for many years. The big crowd was well behaved, in spite of the carnival spirit that pervaded all. This celebration will never be forgotten by all who participated, and was expressive of the great joy of our people at the victory of allied arms and especially of the wonderful record made by the Yanks, who have won the admiration of the whole world.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
An interesting sidelight on the momentous times is the discovery that the great German "Gott" of battle, regarding whose activities in behalf of the kaiser and his cohorts we have heard so much, turns out to be merely a case of mistaken identity. The German nation is now about to find the true God, in humility, reparation to those they wronged as far as it is possible and in rebuilding what they have de- stroyed. When all nations have learned this lesson, there will be peace without ending.
PRAISES OLD FIFTH REGIMENT
Colonel Paul proud of His Nebraska Boys and the Record of State Troops Vol. 1-54
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Hamilton County furnished a very large number of the men who served under Colonel Paul in the old Fifth Nebraska Regiment, which later became the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment of the Sand-storm Division. All will be interested in the following statement made by Colonel Paul upon his return from France :
"The Flu cheated us of a crack at the Hun, but the Nebraska boys were ready for them, despite our hard luck," declared Col. H. J. Paul, of the old Fifth Nebraska, late of the Three Hundred and Sixth Infantry in France.
Colonel Paul arrived in Omaha Saturday from Camp Dix, where he was mus- tered out a few days following his return to this country. After a brief rest here he will go to Lincoln to assume his duties as adjutant general of the state, which appointment he received at the hands of Governor McKelvie while still in France.
Colonel Pant was commander of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Infantry at Camp Cody and sailed with this branch of the thirty-fourth division for France on October 17, 1918.
"We trained at Camp Cody just one year, and when we were ordered to Dix in Angust we were sure that we were en ronte direct for the front," related the colonel. "The boys were overjoyed when we heard later that we would leave Dix and he sent immediately to the firing line. On the eve of our departure, September 10th, influenza struck the camp and we were quarantined for a month. When we finally did sail, orders had been so changed that our chances of getting in the big fight were done."
The organization landed at Liverpool on October 23d, went direct to Camp Codford near Southhampton and three days later crossed the channel. "We were sent to a camp twelve miles from Bordeaux, arriving there October 30th, and November 10th were ordered to Le Mons. While en route to Le Mons the old Nebraska outfit was stunned by news of the armistice. A madder bunch you never saw, and I most certainly joined the boys in their grief.
"At Le Mons the organization was scattered to the four winds as replacement troops. And here I might add that I consider this bit of treatment to have been decidedly rough on an outfit that had been so long intact.
"I was assigned as commander of the Three Hundred and Sixth Infantry of the seventy-seventh division of New York national army men, and as I assumed command I received word of my appointment by Governor MeKelvie as adjutant general of the state. I sailed for home from Brest January 31st and landed at New York, February 12th.
"I have seen England and France and while the trip was interesting I am more than ever convinced that the United States is the only country in the world to live in.
"At Brest it rains 350 days out of the 365, and I cannot for the life of me sce how it can be utilized for an embarkation camp. France in this vicinity is a sea of mud and accommodations for the troops there will be all but impossible.
"While at Brest, Chaplain Goodsell of Chadron, Nebraska, who is in charge of the German prison camp there, took ine on a tour of the camp. The Germans were in fine spirits and seemed delighted at being out of the fight. The general tidiness of their surroundings seemed to be a source of pride to them. Their barracks, bakery and mess halls were models of German military efficiency. Captain Goodsell had charge of 2,300 German captives.
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"I was never near the firing line, but my stay in France was long enough for me to learn that the national guard had made a marvelous record. There is not a single instance where the national guard as an organization did not more than fulfill the highest expectations. I maintain that the Rainbow division as an organization, unmolested by transfers, made the best showing of any division in France.
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